Handling of covert 1000 crisis. Visit our dot com for more coverage of stories from around the world stay with us now though for the big picture right here on our show international. On this weeks show in the News Business we say that stories like corona virus block out the sun but there sure is other news you need to know when well have at it but 1st outbreak update. We fear a deadly respiratory disease for which there is no vaccine and is coronavirus also a Mental Health threat if you are anxious you are not alone im holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our to you america. 9 years ago the matt damon Gwyneth Paltrow kate winslet thriller contagion foretold what many fear could be unfolding right now. The average person to see their faces 3 to 5 times every week. Or know a lot of friends and each other. Italy is under nationwide lockdown schools are closed to sports and other Public Events even religious ceremonies are cancelled if you went to italy to see the Sistine
A typical star there are hundreds of millions of stars like that in our own galaxy and so astronomers can monitor the life cycle of stars like our sun and we know the sun is about 4 and a half 1000000000 years old and it stars like the sun last around 9 or 10000000000 years so dont lose any sleep over it but its true that some day the earth will be destroyed by our own star well look at the world well live in nj and i mean the growing number of conflicts on the Climate Change is recognised as another existential threat were facing what makes you think that will survive for even another 1000 years before you have billions. Thats a great question i mean fundamentally im an optimist i think that weve already seen well i know that weve already seen just incredible advances in science and Technology Medicine communication transportation just in the last few 100 years and i think that you know thats whats going to help us survive as a species thats whats going to help us learn to live in a S
America. Google has become of verb its internet search tool is that commonplace in our everyday lives like kleenex and scotch tape its become a generic term googles Corporate Mission statement is to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful which google says it accomplishes by considering many factors including the words in your question the content of pages the expertise of sources and your language and location recently we introduce you to activist merriam 9 who spoke of google manipulating search results at the expense of alternative Health Information and while googles Parent Company itself. Has pharmaceutical subsidiaries if you miss that show you can find it where youll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture our t. And merriam introduced us to a former Google Software engineer who says there are other ingredients in the secret sauce they were intending to sculpt the information landscape so that they could create their own
To build and they just army staff face increasing pressure and abuse amid the coronavirus. Theres a lot of. Questions left on and on we need all the hope we can get. That evening and welcome to the program this is Art International coming to you live from the russian capital for new year like news update this hour the number of coronavirus cases has now topped a quarter of a 1000000 a pandemic house claimed more than 10000. 00 lives worldwide with over half of those deaths in europe alone the World Health Organization has become the 1st trials of a possible vaccine but it will be an estimated 12 months before its available. I. Russia has also started its own coded in 1000. 00 vaccine trials the country does have 253. 00 confirmed cases which is relatively low compared with the west but officials point to the strict measures taken early on to prevent the spread they include comprehensive checks at airports as my guest if has been finding out. Welcome to sherry and thats in the airport w
Below and welcome to you so if you could visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze well they say a leopard never changed which is very much true about humans so who is really in charge of my life me or my brain and are we one of the say well i talk about this with professor of neurobiology at the university. Of us are solved its really good to have you on our program so we have lots to discuss you say that any basic trait of a person or such a Sexual Identity predisposition to something is actually decided in mothers womb when you are 4 your brain is formed within the will a lot of other neuroscientists will argue with you because theyre saying what we are is our genes plus the upbringing but in your case youre saying its not nature versus nurture its just nature no i have never said ok and i think that the distinction between nature and science because from the very beginning its an interaction between the 2. So its nature into action this nurture but to not show the stars at the moment of c